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THE IHL LOCKEROOM A LOOK INSIDE

When you walk into the Manitoba Mooses dressing room its nothing spectacular like you would see at the Molson Centre with the Montreal Canadiensor at the ACC with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Once you open the big blue door leading inside the dressing room, your first glimpse inside you cannot help but tonotice the pictures around the room of past Moose players. Everything is placed in the stalls nice and neat courtsey of equipment manager DaleCoulthard who puts in countless of hours seeing that all aspects of the equpiment is ready to go. To your left is the gatorade machine and the coacheschalk board that has the visiting teams starting lineup and potential line matches and any other thing that the coaching staff may want to add. The firstand last player in the dressing room is centreman Eric Veilleux who always has a hello for everyone that walks in the room in between his chaws on histobacco. While looking around you cannot help notice the big black box in the far left corner. When it is on you think your at a rock concert as TheOffspring pounds through the dressing room for everyone in a 5 mile radius to hear. Walk around some more and you see the goal pads of Jason Elliotand Manny Legace placed neatly in front of the stalls. As you walk by the goalies stall and look right you see the team trainers room of RossHodgkinson whos primary responsibilty is to make sure no injuries occur and when they do to get the player back in game shape asap. Then you seethe shower stalls and sinks with tooth brushes, razor blades , shaving gel and countless bottles of hair gel. The far back room is where the playershang their suits, where they can relax on the big couches and watch tv on the big screen and get their minds off hockey if just for a few minutes. The room may be nothing spectacular to the average person but for the players its a second home, a place where they can forget about everday lifeeven if its just for a few hours.

Tomorrow look for the players perspective on life in a IHL Dressing Room.